the Ground Zero Mosque Must Be Stopped --- would you prefer a monument for the sacrifices of jews on 911?
On May 11, 5:29 am, Travis <[email protected]> wrote: > May 10, 2010 > Why the Ground Zero Mosque Must Be Stopped > > *By* *Madeline Brooks* <http://www.americanthinker.com/madeline_brooks/> > > Planting a mosque just two blocks from where Muslims murdered Americans on > 9/11 in the name of Islam is a huge slap in the face. Why shouldn't Muslims > be sensitive enough to realize that a huge mosque planted right near the > horrific wound to the U.S. created at Ground Zero by Muslims is outrageous > to us? *They *claim a right to be insulted by cartoons mocking their > prophet, even to the point of beheading people. > > The Imam of the *Ground Zero Insult*, Faisal Abdul Rauf, is not the nice guy > he likes to hold himself out to be. At his Friday afternoon > *khutbah*services and in his book > *What's Right With Islam* Rauf states that he wants the mosque to be a place > where inter-faith understanding is fostered. His sonorous voice is smooth > and almost hypnotic. His writing style appears to be rational and > unthreatening. > > However, this does not jibe with the aspects of him that are downright > hostile and frightening. > > During a recent Friday sermon, this writer did due diligence as a mosque > monitor and heard Rauf deny that Muslims perpetrated 9/11. In an interview > with CNN shortly after 9/11, Rauf said, "U.S. policies were an accessory to > the crime that happened. We [the U.S.] have been an accessory to a lot of > innocent lives dying in the world. Osama bin Laden was made in the USA." > Elsewhere, Rauf has stated that terrorism will end only when the West > acknowledges the harm it has done to Muslims. And that it was Christians who > started mass attacks on civilians. > > Rauf has numerous ties to CAIR, an unindicted co-conspirator in the > Department of Justice funding case brought against Hamas, an openly > terrorist organization. CAIR is also the initiator of numerous cases > designed to intimidate non-Muslims from criticizing aggressive Muslim > behavior, and to use our own legal and democratic processes to undermine and > dominate America, forcing it to become Islamic. > > Rauf calls himself a Sufi, evoking among non-Muslims a "peace and love" > image. But that's not the whole picture. Sufism has many sides to it, > including the Koranic injunction to spread Islam one way or another, and it > has a rich history of waging war, too. Could it be that one of the > frequently used tools of war, lying to the enemy, explains the contradiction > between Rauf's image as reconciler of religions and his sympathies and > associations with terrorists? > > A previous Rauf project, Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow, clearly shows on its > website that it is headed and funded by individuals from Saudi Arabia, the > country that spawned fifteen of the nineteen jihad jockeys who rode the 9/11 > planes of destruction. The funding for the mosque at Ground Zero is much > murkier so far. All that has been publicly disclosed is that the support > comes from unidentified sources in Saudi Arabia and Muslim-ruled Malaysia. > Rauf reportedly says he* *paid $4.85 million for the property -- in cash. > Where exactly did this money come from? Was it Wahhabist-supporting Saudi > sources, which have already funded many other mosques in New York City? > > The mosque is called Cordoba House. Muslims like to refer to Spain and > especially the city of Cordoba as a place where their rule reached a > glorious peak. Contrary to the myth of a Golden Age of equality during the > Muslim occupation of Spain (and in particular in Cordoba), Spain and Cordoba > were* *places where Christians and Jews *suffered *as social inferiors under > Islamic oppression. Equal civil rights never existed for non-Muslims under > Sharia, or Islamic law. Rauf even admits as much when he writes, "Jews and > Christians living under Muslim rule simply had to pay a tax to finance their > protection by their Muslim overlords." This is not equality! Americans do > not demand a special tax to protect Muslims from ourselves. That would be > extortion, not "protection." > > Through another organization Rauf started called the Cordoba Initiative, he > created the "Sharia Index." This will measure how closely countries follow > Sharia, or Islamic law. While Sharia *can* cover such relatively innocuous > aspects of Muslim life as religious weddings (hopefully not to > twelve-year-old girls), it also demands that *all *Muslim life be governed > by laws derived from the Koran, without the intervention of civic > institutions, such as democracy. And the Koran dictates that *everyone*,* > *even > non-Muslims,* *must ultimately live under Sharia. Do you understand how that > is in direct conflict with our Constitution and other aspects of our secular > society? > > Rauf gets even trickier here. He states in *What's Right With Islam *that a > society that follows natural law, such as America, is already practicing > Sharia. However, he does not note that his peculiar definition of Sharia > acceptance is shared by just about no other Imam. So what prevents him from > adjusting his singular idea of Sharia back to the norm of forced > conversions, murdering non-Muslims and apostates, amputations of thieves' > hands, stoning of adulterous women, execution of homosexuals, etc.? > Throughout his writing, Rauf floats an image of a harmonious, pleasant Islam > -- nice to everybody. But this is totally disconnected from Islam's actual > history of bloody conquest, enslavement, and humiliation of other people -- > which he never acknowledges. > > Still another unsettling part of Rauf's problem mosque is why the city has > given the building a pass. Records for the Department of Buildings have > shown numerous complaints for illegal construction and no access, yet the > issues were listed as "resolved." > > Community Board One's financial district committee needs to reconsider its > endorsement of this mosque. The prestigious American groups that are > reportedly also financing the mosque, The Ford Foundation and The > Rockefeller Brothers Fund, need to think again about what they are getting > into. The Department of Buildings needs to reassess its action. The Mayor's > Office of Immigrant Affairs, which supports the project (Why? What has a > religious building got to do with immigration?) needs to reevaluate its > approval. > > Mayor Bloomberg himself needs to withdraw his support for this mosque, > especially in light of the recent Times Square car bomb attempt. If not, he > will be helping to provide a handy meeting place for future terrorists, > those who understand Imam Rauf's real message: Speak sweetly, appear to be a > well-adjusted member of American society, and plan the destruction of > America, either with bombs or "peaceful" undermining. > > *Madeline Brooks is an NYC resident and writer.** * > > *Page Printed > from:http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/05/why_the_ground_zero_mosque_mus... > * at May 10, 2010 - 08:27:25 AM CDT > > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help seehttp://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community athttp://www.PoliticalForum.com/ > * It's active and moderated. 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